Niklas
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in German: a male given name from Nikolaus
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Niklas is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. In Benin it is the 10th most common given name.
- SESweden1 in 323(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 527
- DEGermany≈1 in 1.9K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Niklas itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 247 (measured from records)
- 1 in 323 (inferred from the name graph)
≈43,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Nicklas in DK Denmark.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a male given name, equivalent to English Nicholas
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
How Niklas is read(measured from records)
Niklas is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- German59%
a male given name from Nikolaus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Karte zeigt die Vokalqualität in der Endsilbe (unsynkopiert/synkopiert); 12 Typen/2427 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
männl. Vom., Kurzform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Swedish17%
Niklas är en form av → Nikolaus. Formen kom i bruk under 1600-talet i stället för det mer vardagliga → Nils. En känd namnbärare är sångaren och låtskrivaren Niklas Strömstedt (f. 1958). I både den rikssvenska och finlandssvenska almanackan 6 december.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- English7.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Niklas in English.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Niklas counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Niklas is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Danish, a male given name, equivalent to English Nicholas
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Russian, Niklas Zrini. 1501.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Niklas Luhmannb. 1927DEGerman sociologist, administration expert, and social systems theorist (1927-1998)
- Niklas Rådströmb. 1953SESwedish writer
- Nick Bostromb. 1973SEnot in their usual namephilosopher and writer (born 1973)
- Niklas Kohrtb. 1980DEGerman actor
- Niklas Moisanderb. 1985FIFinnish footballer
- Alexander Meyerb. 1991DEnot in their usual nameGerman footballer (born 1991)
- Niklas Süleb. 1995DEGerman association football player (born 1995)
- Niklas Starkb. 1995DEGerman footballer
- Niklas Kaulb. 1998DEGerman decathlete
- Niklas Dorschb. 1998DEGerman footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 81 sources across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 32K | #133 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 22K | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 12K | #181 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 11K | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 3.3K | #164 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15 | #28,676 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 6 | — |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Niklas have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 43 thousand people named Niklas in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled niklas.
- Where is Niklas most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Niklas is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 323 people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- Where does the name Niklas come from?
- a male given name, equivalent to English Nicholas Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Niklas a male or female name?
- Niklas is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How common is the name Niklas?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 31,622 people named Niklas, about 1 in 323 residents.
- How common is Niklas compared with other names?
- In Germany, Niklas is the 309th most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
- What does the name Niklas mean?
- In German, a male given name from Nikolaus
- What are other forms of the name Niklas?
- In the etymology graph, Nicolas, Nicholas and Nick are forms of the same name in other languages; Nils, Claes and Klas are recorded short or pet forms.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/niklasThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Niklas” — the 309th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.